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Jobaline raises $7M to expand hourly jobs marketplace to 50 cities in six months

Jobaline, a bilingual marketplace that helps businesses hire dishwashers, construction workers, mechanics, landscapers and janitors, has closed a second round of… Read More

Farmstr raises $1.3M to be the Airbnb for local organic food

Farming is in Janelle Maiocco’s DNA. Growing up in Bellingham, Wash., she rode tractors around her family’s farm and drove… Read More

Your neighbor’s closet is now for rent: Stash helps you find places to store your stuff

Lots of people have extra space in their homes. Others want an easy and inexpensive way of storing their excess… Read More

Tech Moves: Godreau heading to NYC with UP Global; Chef opens in Europe; and more

—UP Global continues to expand, and this time the Seattle non-profit has picked an experienced venture capitalist to help lead… Read More

How this bootstrapper made it work: Great advice from Dan Price’s amazing startup journey

Gravity Payments CEO Dan Price grew up in rural southwest Idaho, home-schooled until the age of 12 in a rural… Read More

Ex-Microsofties raise $1.2M for high-tech beer-brewing machine

Turns out there’s quite a demand — and investor interest — for at-home beer brewing systems. We last wrote about PicoBrew this… Read More

Zillow slaps down Flipt, issues cease-and-desist letter alleging improper use of data

Seattle-based Flipt emerged on the scene earlier this month, touting a new service that allowed home buyers and investors to… Read More

Aiming to simplify consumer market research, DiscussIO wins $155K at Seattle Angel Conference

Discuss IO had pitched at several investment competitions around Seattle in the past year, but fell short of any money… Read More

From flu finders to sauerkraut: Meet the winning teams from the UW biz plan competition

Innovation was on full display Thursday night as leaders from the technology community gathered for the 17th annual University of… Read More

Startup Spotlight: CollegeMapper helps high school students get into college

Growing up with a family that had no college graduates and inside a house that was without plumbing for 12 years,… Read More

GeekWire 200 Update: Who’s moving up in the Pacific Northwest tech world

Redfin is growing across the country, preparing for a potential IPO, and steadily climbing up the ranks of the GeekWire… Read More

Study: 12 cities highlighted for small business development progress, including Seattle

The National League of Cities today released a report highlighting 12 cities around the nation that have implemented unique strategies… Read More

Startup PDX Challenge accepting applications; women, minorities encouraged to compete

Startup PDX Challenge is back for its second annual competition, welcoming a diverse set of entrepreneurs vying for a top prize… Read More

Here comes yet another marketplace to connect home owners with service providers: HouseCall raises $1.5 million

Home owners should have little trouble these days finding plumbers, house painters and other service providers to work on their… Read More

Context Relevant lands $21M, looks to bring ‘big data’ to Wall Street

Context Relevant CEO Stephen Purpura can’t tell you the Wall Street firms that are buying up his company’s predictive analytics… Read More

UW spinout AnswerDash launches, names ex-Drugstore.com CEO Dawn Lepore to board

As a first time startup CEO, Jake Wobbrock has learned a lot about his company in the past year. But one of the more… Read More

Chart: Google Ventures leads corporate venture capital pack as cash continues to flow

Big corporations are putting more money to work in startup companies, another sign that things are heating up in the… Read More

Hanauer brothers and others back Sworl, an easy way to frame your mobile photos

Looking to do something meaningful with those photos trapped on your iPhone? Here comes Sworl, a new photo framing service… Read More

Online home improvement startup Pro.com touts service on Seattle billboard

Seattle startup Pro.com — which is trying to transform the way consumers find home improvement professionals — emerged on the… Read More

9Mile Labs: Here are the 9 startups emerging from Seattle’s B2B incubator

9Mile Labs graduated nine new startup companies on Friday, showcasing a wide-range of new technologies from the Seattle business-to-business incubator.… Read More

Is online real estate still broken? New upstarts look to carve paths against established giants

Online real estate powerhouses like Redfin, Trulia and Zillow have been around for years, building multi-million dollar businesses in a… Read More

Year Up: How this program transforms low-income young adults into rising tech stars

Year Up is a scam. That’s what Selemun Welderfael first thought when he read about a new program in Seattle that offered computer education,… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Nouvola helps developers prevent cloud deployment disasters

When asked to explain what her company does, Paola Moretto responds with a simple question: Would you test a bridge before having… Read More

Smartphone stethoscope startup led by 15-year-old wins First Look Forum

Hanging out on Jimmy Fallon’s show one week, a first-place finish at a pitch competition the next — things are… Read More

‘It’s going great!’ Decoding the biggest lie in startups

I heard it last week at the GeekWire Awards, like I hear it at almost every tech networking event ever.… Read More

Boxed is not a Costco-killer, it’s a Costco reseller

Will Costco be killed by mobile? Maybe, but it won’t be by Boxed, a mobile app that delivers large quantities of consumer packaged goods… Read More

Seattle gets a new startup accelerator, with a twist: No equity required

Seattle has no shortage of startup accelerators — places where like-minded entrepreneurs convene for short spells in order to get… Read More

6th graders win Startup Weekend with game that teaches pre-teens how to code

It took two middle schoolers to come up with a game that could teach kids to code — developing an… Read More

MovingWorlds raises cash, looks to connect volunteers with non-profits

MovingWorlds, the Seattle-based company which offers to connect skilled volunteers with non-profit organizations, social enterprises and startups around the world,… Read More

Ex-Digg CEO raises $3.5M from Jeff Bezos, Andreessen Horowitz and others for Pro.com, giving you price estimates for home projects

There’s a new online home improvement startup in town, and this one comes with an experienced tech executive at the… Read More

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